Combined pen holder and cleaner



{No Model.)

0. GOODWIN.

COMBINED PEN HOLDER AND CLEANER.

No. 283,389. Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

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' UNITED STATES- ATENT CALEB GOODWIN, 0F HYDE PARK, ILLINOIS;

C(lMBlNED PEN HOLDER AND CLEANER,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,389, dated August 21, 1883.

' Application filed September 25, 18 82. (No model.)

To add whom it may concern Be itknownthat I, CALEB Goonwm, of Hyde Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Pen Holders and Cleaners, of which the following is the specification.

The nature of my invention consists in combining a cover with a sponge-cup, through which cover are aseries of holes, each for the reception of a pen-holder, allowing the pen to rest in the sponge or cleaning material, thus holding the pen in an upright position.

Fi gore 1 is a vertical section of my combined pen holder and cleaner with pen placed therein. Fig. 2 is a top view of the pen-holder.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

Ais the cup, made of glass or other suitable material. B is a sponge within the cup. 6 is the pen-holder, located above the cup and extending down within it, having shoulder D D, resting upon upper edge of cup. E E are holes extending through the holder.

The sponge Bis moistened with water and placed within the cup, as shown in Fig. 1. The holder C- is placed in position. The holder extends nearly down to the sponge. The pen I is inserted in one of the holes E, the point extending into the moistened sponge. Thus the pen is held in position and cleaned, ready to be used at any moment.

I am aware that pen holders and cleaners have been made having an open top surround; ed with notches for receiving the pen and holding it in position;- but this is not my construotion. The cap to my cleaner and wiper, which is the holder, covers the cup within which is the sponge, and also has holes through it, through which the pens are inserted. Thus are they held in an upright position.

A pen holder and cleaner consisting of the cup A, sponge B, and holder or cap 0, said cap having a series of holes through it, in which the pens are inserted and held in an upright position, substantially as shown and described.

CALEB GOODWIN.

lVit-nesses:

S. WV. HANCOX, G. H. WILLIAMS. 

